The Portland Housing Bureau is earmarking tens of thousands of dollars to buy homeless Portlanders bus tickets out of town in coming months, provided they can prove that greener pastures await elsewhere. In an unusual request out of step the city’s normal budget process this morning, the bureau said that that money—along with another $2 […]
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How Old Town Became Portland’s Primary Homeless District
Matt Camp HOMELESSNESS IN PORTLAND may not be unique to Old Town, but the neighborhood is well known as Portland’s primary homeless district. It’s a neighborhood and a situation that was created more than a century ago by simultaneous forces—economic and social—working in concert. And while the types of homelessness that were prevalent at the […]
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How Old Town Became Portland’s Primary Homeless District
How Old Town became Portland’s primary homeless district.
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Here’s What A City-County Homelessness Office Could Look Like
It might not have control over some of Charlie Hales’ new initiatives.
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It’s Official: R2DToo Is Moving Across the River (Barring Appeal)
In the end, the decision to move Right 2 Dream Too across the river came quickly, and with just a smidge of drama. Portland City Council had already listened for hours last week as foes of moving the homeless camp from beneath the Chinatown Gate to the Central Eastside laid out a litany of arguments. […]
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Homeless Portlanders Will Be Allowed to Camp on City Land Under Proposals Being Unveiled Monday Afternoon
Dirk VanderHart A prototype of informational cards the city will hand out to help homeless Portlanders navigate new policy. This afternoon, Mayor Charlie Hales’ office will reveal a set of policies that upend Portland’s past strategies for dealing with homelessness. In a City Council work session at 3 pm, Hales plans to lay out an […]
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Today’s Meeting on Right 2 Dream Too’s Fate Has Been Postponed
City of Portland An artist’s rendering of the new R2DToo site, as proposed. The showdown over Right 2 Dream Too will have to wait. Following unexpected absences from Mayor Charlie Hales (sick) and Commissioner Steve Novick (personal matter), a meeting that will largely determine the fate of the self-managed homeless rest area has been pushed […]
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GUEST POST: Why Overlook Neighbors Want A List of Homeless Campers’ Names
EDITORS’ NOTE: The following post is by Chris Trejbal, a board member with the Overlook Neighborhood Association (OKNA). As we’ve reported, the association opposes the Hazelnut Grove homeless camp on North Greeley. OKNA is asking every neighborhood association in the city to sign a form letter to Mayor Charlie Hales’ office, requesting that Hales set […]
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Jessie Sponberg’s Inviting Other Mayoral Candidates To A Homeless Camp “Slumber Party”
James Rexroad At Hazelnut Grove Invites to Portland’s exclusive candidate forums have been hard to come by for Portland’s lesser known mayoral candidates, so Jessie Sponberg’s organizing his own. It’s a sleepover. Sponberg, a well-known local activist, announced today he’s gotten approval from campers at Hazelnut Grove to hold a “mayoral candidate slumber party” at […]
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Homeless Advocates Almost Weren’t Invited to an Upcoming Meeting On Homelessness Because it Might “Take Attention” From Middle Class
Dirk VanderHart Portland police and city employees sweeping camps near the Springwater Corridor in 2014 One week ago, a collection of SE Portland neighborhood advocates met to discuss the ongoing difficulties neighbors are reporting with homeless camps along the Springwater Corridor. In particular, camping and problematic activity near the Cartlandia food cart pod, where the […]
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The City Will Permit A North Portland Homeless Camp That Started Sneakily
Fast-approaching conflict wasn’t hard to envision two weeks ago, when a group of homeless campers surprised officials by setting up shop on a vacant, city-owned lot in North Portland, announcing they’d just founded Portland’s latest organized encampment. The campers—recently pushed from a site on North Greeley—told the Mercury at the time they had every right […]
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Update: A Homeless Camp Is Waylaying Needed Homeless Day Storage Under the Steel Bridge
Remember a couple weeks back when I wrote that the City of Portland was finally about to launch a series of day storage sites for homeless people months late? Then remember how that didn’t happen because the driver who was supposed to deliver the modified shipping container got sick? Well the storage site was supposed […]